Recovery Window / oil on canvas / 2025 (let's get weird with art, cool)

All these southern states sending their NG troops to DC during hurricane season?

While watching dumb movies and riding amusement park rides this summer, I had some revelations about writing, reading, and trust. Come, let me show you: www.agentsandbooks.com/p/on-trust-d...

"..I recall the impression of having traveled with you to another world, without trace or itinerary. The village where we ate didn’t have a name, the road had no end, and the rain fell from an obscured sky, created only to shelter our slow walk onward." nikitaandester.substack.com/p/78-if-the-...

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

Jane Goodall's letters home from her first expedition studying chimps show us something valuable: fuck waiting for a proper education, go get your hands dirty, and nothing beats dogged hyperfixation in achieving your dreams. nikitaandester.substack.com/p/75-ah-we-m...

Just missed out on this year’s John Moores Painting Prize with ‘Fracture’. Although I was amazed to get to Stage 2. Congratulations to those who got through!

nikitaandester.substack.com/p/39-and-as-... What's happening isn't new - and we can't let it happen again.

For May, I translated ten WWI-era letters I found at a Toulouse flea market - if you love to hate petty French bureaucracy and office drama, you'll love giving these a read. nikitaandester.substack.com/p/72-cher-mo...

All the hidden emotion. 'The color within' by Isa Guadalupe Medina is perfection. Photo by Socrates Mdn #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #photogrpahy #artmagazine #artinspo #isaguadalupedesigns #falseface #mask #allminimal #beadart #textileart #art

Since March, my CPTSD's been the worst of my life. I used to be a masking pro, but I’m weeks behind on my newsletter, on art projects, on calling friends. To folks waiting on me: I’m coming. I promise. To folks rooting for me: I got this. I promise. & to folks in crisis: We'll be OK. I promise.

Using 11 cameras and 11 photographs, "Two Ways" by fine art photographer js.dykstra really brings 2d photography into a new realm! Model: abstract painter Gregory R Deady #beautifulbizarre #jsdykstra #experimentalphotography #fineartphotography #art#experimentalart #blackandwhitephotography

Happy Lorraine Hansberry's birthday! ❤️

I'm looking for a home for my near-future short story about a throuple trying to make rent in Denver after the city puts up billboards to block the sun. Tell me if your magazine's open so I can send it over!

I just finished draft one of my latest novel! Can I get a woop woop???

This is 100% why @adapalmer.bsky.social is my idol. Among many reasons.

This is one of my favorite pieces I've ever done - and it's up for auction for charity to support trans rights! If you've ever wanted spooky art in your home, now's the time <3 www.32auctions.com/organization...

The 2nd Round of the Screenwriting Challenge 2025 is underway! View the new genre/subject/character assignments and a countdown to the deadline at nycmidnight.co/42G8W2P. Best of luck to the 300 participating writers with their 8-page screenplays over the next three days!

This is one of my favorite pieces I've ever done - and it's up for auction for charity to support trans rights! If you've ever wanted spooky art in your home, now's the time <3 www.32auctions.com/organization...

A year of my newsletter - which includes snail mail artwork sent to your door - is up for auction! It's going for a song right now, so if you've ever been curious, now's the time to go for it! www.32auctions.com/organization...

If you've ever been curious about my newsletter, now's the time to bid on a year-long subscription to it to support trans rights! You'll get postcard prints of dope artwork and monthly voting rights to shape Snail Mail Sweethearts however you see fit <3 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Oh, hey! Like my postcards and wanted your own to mail to folks? Hot dang, you're in luck - bid on this auction for trans rights to get your hands on some while supporting a good cause ASAP! www.32auctions.com/organization...

If you've ever been curious about my newsletter, now's the time to bid on a year-long subscription to it to support trans rights! You'll get postcard prints of dope artwork and monthly voting rights to shape Snail Mail Sweethearts however you see fit <3 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Hey, have you ever wanted some of my art? Bid on it now to support trans rights! This is one of my favorite pieces and it deserves a good home <3 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Are YOU the sff writer halfway through a manuscript in need of a NEUROSCIENTIST? Want to give that extra spicy verisimilitude to your elaborate neuroscience plot? Bid on this 90min consultation (with 30min follow up) in aid of trans rights in UK and South Africa! www.32auctions.com/organization...

There will be two more fiction submission windows in 2025: Novelettes (300 story cap): June 4th Indigenous Authors (500 story cap): November 3rd More information at the links in our bio! Writers may only send one story across all three 2025 submission windows.

We're blown away by how much love and support there's been for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights in SA and UK auction. We've got awesome donations from SF, fantasy, romance, horror and crime writers, artists, creators and one neuroscientist. Please share! Please bid! bit.ly/genrefortrans.

Submissions are open at Mythaxis Magazine until April 31st: mythaxis.co.uk/submissions....

Hosting creative workshops at @easterconuk.bsky.social #reconnect2025 was beyond a joy - thank you to everyone who made art and poetry with me! Til next time 💕

Look at this amazing response already! Bidding closes on 2nd May - let’s help protect our trans siblings! We got this, friends 💕💕💕

Overwhelmed 😭❤️ with the response to our DIY charity auction Genre Creators for Trans Rights. 4 hours in and we're already over £500, on top of the £500 from my rare book sales and the brilliant @EasterconUK Belfast just threw in an extra £500, so it's already £1500! www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

A really fantastic charity auction set up by our @easterconuk.bsky.social Guests of Honour. Many cool things to be found.

www.32auctions.com/organization... I'm offering a full structural and copy edit of a novel up to 100k (worth about £800 in Real Money) so you could grab a real bargain here, all money to trans supportive causes here and in South Africa #genrefortrans Please share and support!

The auction also has goods and services, like a 6 hour sensitivity read from @helenargh.bsky.social, handknitted socks by @julietk.bsky.social, a custom dragon painting by Kate Towner, bespoke scarves, poems, songs. I can't tag everyone, so please go check it out: www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

I'm offering a limited black edition of The Shining Girls, (appropriately numbered 911/1000), @levgrossman.bsky.social has a leather bound edition of The Bright Sword, @ngjeannette.bsky.social will make the winning bidder a custom crochet beast and is also doing micro-fiction on a postcard.

I’m offering a photo embroidery, a year of my newsletter, and a postcard pack to support trans rights in the UK and South Africa! Let’s do what we can to make the world safer for our communities 💕

Welp. Since autism is caused by being born autistic and having an autistic parent who also had an autistic parent this will be fun.

If it crosses the U.S. border illegally, it's our job to STOP IT. The cow as white as milk. The cape as red as blood. The hair as yellow as corn. The slipper as pure as gold.

Always a good day to punch nazis! Thanks @pemcoanimation.bsky.social for rad work as always <3

My favorite piece I've ever painted. @beautifulbizarre.net #oilpainting #surrealist #figurativepainter

It was such a privilege to make this art, and I loved this story - if you haven't read it yet, prepare to be gutted <3

Windows into the soul... so full of emotion. OSMOSE 03 by Marzieh Shojaee Mixed materials on board 100x70 cm #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #artmagazine #artinspo #portraitpainting #acrylicpainting #pastel #aestheticedits #artcollectors #art

As #WomenHistoryMonth draws to a close, let’s continue to remember how crucial it is to find women’s voices in the archive and how to read between the lines/find alternative ways to find them in the records

Hi, my name is Rachel. I am a senior cleric in the Church of England, an award-winning poet, theologian, and broadcaster. I am also trans and I love this truth. The world’s trans community is scared at the moment but we refuse to be invisible. See me and my siblings! #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility

Since Donald Trump and Elon Musk's daily dismantling of democracy means the U.S. is no longer a safe place to visit for my international friends, I've begun researching international cons and am considering the 2026 @easterconuk.bsky.social. Just added my name to the mailing list. eastercon2026.org

Heads up! If you are planning to attend the 2025 Eastercon in Belfast and haven't yet bought a membership, now is a good time as they plan to cut off their online registration at midnight on 4th April (so as to be able to pre-print badges). Register here registration.easterconbelfast.org

My oil paintings are currently hanging up at my favorite neighborhood bar - a first for me in France! I am very grateful for this life, the friends in it, and the art I get to share with y'all

So excited for #eastercon that I had a dream about all the panels and workshops I'm going to participate in next month! Who's going?!

Post an old illustration you still like. Earth and her moon (2021)